It’s Aliiive! The folks at RIPT Apparel have decided to kick off their Tee-rannosaurus Rex Week with my very own long lost Puppy Chow design. But it’s only on sale today and today only, so get it while the gettin’s good. Only $10!
I should have asked. When he contacted me around Christmas, and told me about his improbably named enterprise, and told me about what he needed me to do, I should have asked Rob Farrell all about it. “League of Dinosaurs?” I should have asked. “Where’d that come from?”
I didn’t ask.
And now, dear reader, neither of us will likely ever know how it is that an Ultimate Frisbee team somewhere in New South Wales came to be known throughout the UF-NSW:NS as the League of Dinosaurs. I mean, there has got to be a half-decent story to go with that, right? Or is it just me?
Anyway. Yeah… you may have noticed an unexpected geographical reference in the above paragraph… namely, New South Wales. For any of my local readers who are thinking to themselves right now, “Isn’t that over by Milford?” the answer is no. It’s in Australia.
Yes, that Australia.
So, how did a fellow living in The Mitten get mixed up with a fellow from the other side of the planet? Easy. The internet. Gosh I love the internet sometimes! Under other circumstances, the prospect of someone looking on the other side of the planet for a guy to fill some dino-illustration needs would be pretty absurd. Apply Tube Technology to those circumstances, however, and it’s like instant Absurdity-B-Gone. Presto! Mitten meets Outback in no time flat, and for nothing more important than to draw up some prehistoric beasts to adorn the uniforms of some folks who like to run around catching and throwing a FlatBall™.
Speaking of which, the adornment in question:
For the record, I also like to run around catching and throwing a FlatBall™, I’m just not good enough at it to join any special league.
Also, this may qualify as my first international job, first intercontinental job, and first interhemispheric job, all in one.
Woo!!! 🙂
Also known as, This Recession and All its Buddies can at Least Buy Me Breakfast.
Anyway. I have been lacking client work lately. There has been, as they might say, a dearth of client work. And, left to my own devices, as they say, I have seen fit to spend my time doing all sorts of things that are–they might say– unproductive… For instance, I have been catching up on my reading (about 2,000 pages in the last three weeks thankyouverymuch). But mostly, I’ve been making foolish stuff like the following.
Dinosaur War - Work in progress
Turtle Transit Authority - WIP
Something Strange, as they say...
Speaking of reading. One of my recent reads was Cormac “Turbo Buzz-kill, as they say” McCarthy’s The Road. Good book, but dire. Nightmarish, as they say. Jiminy Cricket.
It’s no secret that I have a thing for dinosaurs. I regard them and other ancient monsters with an enthusiasm that is curious to my friends, if not entertaining. But what my friends should keep in mind is that there are people out there that harbor still deeper dino-obsessions and, more importantly, the ambition to tell people about it.
Enter: The Smithsonian “Dinosaur Tracking” blog, a delightful repository of dinosaur news, musings, minutia, and even sightings — which is where I come in to the picture. The section of the blog devoted to sightings is a survey of all things dinosaur that one might encounter in everyday life — particularly in pop-culture– such as roadside sculptures, billboards, motion pictures, and — in my case– t-shirts. To such ends, the blog discovered my Sweet Tooth design on Threadless and decided it was worthy of entry as a cataloged Dinosaur Sighting. Naturally, I am pleased 🙂
Brian Wolly (yes, it was acknowledged in an email that our names are eerily similar, even moreso in pronunciation than in spelling), who helps run the blog, said they may even feature my Dinosaurs Ate My Shirt! store sometime in the future, which makes him one of my favorite people on the internet at the moment.
Other incredible finds on Dinosaur Tracking are as follows:
Sweet Tooth has just been put in the running at Threadquarters. Go exercise your Thread-Given Democratic Rights of Apparel!
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